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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The city’s top cop had a sitdown with members of the Times Square and Broadway communities Thursday to discuss quality-of-life concerns with a sharp focus on costumed characters, WCBS 880’s Marla Diamond reported.

“We are going to pursue an effort to regulate the activity,” NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said at the Broadway Association’s luncheon. “But at the moment, there is nothing that allows us to regulate the number of them.”

Commissioner Bratton: Police Will Effort To Regulate Costumed Characters In Times Square

The 36-year-old man had been charged with punching a mother of two in the face after she refused to tip him for posing for a photo with her children in February 2013.

The attorney for the character argued that the woman started the fight by throwing a block of ice at his head after he called her names. Another Times Square character, Batman, had to intervene in the scuffle.